[2] Bryan Caplan asks a good question – good for considerations of both policy and academic research: http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2013/05/monetizing_job.html

[3] Wisdom – here in the form of sound economics – from Tyler Cowen on immigration: http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2013/05/do-low-wages-for-unskilled-workers-weaken-the-case-for-more-immigration.html

[5] Randy Holcombe points us to a distressing instance of the sort of government corruption that is so typical that it goes largely unnoticed: http://blog.independent.org/2013/05/28/crony-capitalism-2/

[6] My GMU colleague David Bernstein (from over in our law school) reviews what apparently is yet another economically uninformed book about Franklin Roosevelt: http://www.volokh.com/2013/05/24/my-review-fear-itself-by-ira-katznelson/

[7] Timothy Taylor documents some pretty good evidence in support of one of my pet claims, namely, that America’s middle class is not stagnating economically: http://conversableeconomist.blogspot.com/2013/05/spending-on-americas-pets.html